The Letter of Violence
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The Letter of Violence

Essays on Narrative, Ethics, and Politics

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The Letter of Violence

Essays on Narrative, Ethics, and Politics

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This book traces the theory of violence from nineteenth-century symmetrical warfare through today's warfare of electronics and unbalanced numbers. Surveying such luminaries as Walter Benjamin, Frantz Fanon, Hannah Arendt, Paul Virilio, and Jacques Derrida, Avelar also offers a discussion of theories of torture and confession, the work of Roman Polanski and Borges, and a meditation on the rise of the novel in Colombia.

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Year
2017
ISBN
9781403978202

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter 1 From Plato to Pinochet: Torture, Confession, and the History of Truth
  6. Chapter 2 Thinking Ethics across Neocolonial Borders: Borges, Ethical Theory, and the International Division of Intellectual Labor
  7. Chapter 3 Specters of Walter Benjamin: Mourning, Labor, and Violence in Jacques Derrida
  8. Chapter 4 Transculturation and Civil War: The Origins of the Novel in Colombia
  9. Afterword: Violence, Law, and Justice
  10. Notes
  11. Works Cited
  12. Index